FBX for LW8-Mac

[m_luscombe]

Has anyone been able to get the FBX export from LW8-Mac working?

All I get is "export failed", even with a simple cube.

This is with version 5.3 with LW 8.0.1

[tonefreds]

I had to go back to 8.0 :(

[m_luscombe]

Yikes, I had forgotten about this thread. I guess no one uses FBX?

8.0.1 definitely breaks the FBX plugin from Kaydara on Mac and PC. Nothing will export. Luckily, I have two seats of Lightwave, and I only upgraded one. So I'll just use the other to export until someone sorts this out.

[tonefreds]

I just got a reply from Newtek in their forum on this issue. It turns out that LW8.0.1 has a problem with file names over 32 chars long. This includes the path name.

"so a file named:
Macintosh HD:Users:MyAccount:t.fbx
would not work, because the total number of character is larger than 32."

To work around this problem, put your FBX files in your root directory and make sure the total char length is less then 32 and all the plugins will work.

Hopefully this will be fixed in 8.0.2.